Meltdown – interesting question, but one that’s been raised already in the existing thread in Cafe Society. I’m moving it thither.
twicks, MPSIMS mod
Markxxx:
Reminds me a bit of the Dick Van Dyke Show
Laura is talking to Rob)
Laura ) If you want to end up another Dwight Heatherton, go ahead!
Rob) Who’s that?
Laura) Dwight Heatheron happens to be an excellent writer who is unknown today because he got no publicity.
Rob) Then how do you know him?
Laura) Oh c’mon Rob, he’s famous .
Or the legendary Gags Beasley .
THespos:
I’d like to see a modern version where Rudolph, excluded from reindeer games for one day too many, comes to Comet’s open tryouts with a sawed-off and goes all Trenchcoat Mafia on everyone in the immediate vicinity. Leaving only that cute little girl reindeer with the abnormally-long eyelashes as the only survivor, Rudy then plays My Chemical Romance on an elf-manufactured iPod until the cops show up, whereupon he turns the shotgun on himself and ends his own life in a spray of gore and reindeer brains.
I bought a Christmas card many years ago–it wasn’t a Far Side card, but similar–with a red-nosed reindeer sitting in an armchair under a row of reindeer heads labeled “Dasher”, “Dancer” etc., and the caption: “All of the other reindeer used to laugh and call him names.”